At the end of last year, the Supreme Court of Justice handed down an important ruling to harmonise court jurisprudence on the protection of copyright (cf. Supreme Court of Justice Ruling of 15/2013), which should be discussed and not neglected.  The issue in dispute was whether, in a commercial establishment open to the public, the…

Directive 2011/83/EU was recently transposed into our legal order by Decree-Law 24/2014, of 14 February. This directive was designed to reformulate the provisions applicable to contracts and distance selling contracts entered into outside of commercial establishments, standardising them throughout the European Union, particularly given the growing number of online contracts and the various problems which…